Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations Conference 2000

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BACIMO 2000 Conference Agenda

Click on presenter's name to view paper abstract as well as author and organization information; an asterisk indicates the presenter of a coauthored paper. While the poster commercials are gathered into two groups on the afternoons of the 25th and 26th, the platform presentations will be presented in session order in the morning and early afternoon of each day.

Monday, 24 April 2000

1600-1800

Early Registration and Poster Set Up

 

 

Tuesday, 25 April 2000

0730-0830

Registration and Poster Set Up

0830-0835

Introduction

0835-0840

Welcome

0840-0900

Keynote Address

SESSION ONE: Program Review
Session Chair: Walter Bach

Platform presentations

0900-0920

McMorrow, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: UPOS (90K)

0920-0940

Eis, CIRA, Colorado State University: Status of the Colorado State University Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research (22K)

0940-1000

Forand, Defense Research Establishment Valcartier: Propagation Resources in Maritime Environments (PRIME): An Integrated Model for the Maritime Battlespace (182K)

1000-1030

BREAK

1030-1050

Tattelman, AFRL: The AFRL Weather Impact Decision Aids Program Progress Update (20K)

1050-1100

Announcements

SESSION TWO: Battlespace Sensing Techniques and Applications
Session Chair: Doug Brown

Platform presentations

1100-1120

Burke, MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Characterization and Delineation of Plumes, Clouds and Fires in a Hyperspectral Image (529K)

1120-1140

Clark, Weather Web (Smart Sensor Web Program): An Integrated Weather Sensor Testbed for Support of Theater Operations in Areas of Complex Terrain (271K)

1140-1200

Knapp, CIRA, Colorado State University: Aerosol Remote Sensing Over Battlefield Stationary Visible Sensors (762K)

1200-1310

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

1310-1330

Maese, Lockheed Martin NESS-Moorestown: Preliminary Results of At-Sea Testing with the Lockheed Martin Tactical Environment Processor (606K)

1330-1350

Pinnick, Army Research Laboratory: Real-Time Measurement of Fluorescence Spectra from Single Airborne Biological Particles (430K)

1350-1410

Boehm, Computer Sciences Corporation: Where Is It? New Tracking Algorithms With Refraction Error (66K)

1410-1430

Hawkins, Navy Research Laboratory: Navy Satellite Meteorology Application Product Demonstrations (149K)

1430-1450

Yee, Army Research Laboratory: Neural Network Retrieval of Upper Level Winds from Ground Based Profiler Measurements (413K)

1450-1517

Break

Poster commercials
Session Chair: Ken Eis

Battlespace Sensing Techniques and Applications

1517-1520

Corbin, Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University: Comparison of Aerosol Properties Derived from Sun Photometer Data and Ground-Based Chemical Measurements (10K)

1520-1523

Jones, CIRA, Colorado State University: The Use of Satellite Derived Surface Heating Rates to Retrieve Soil Moisture in Cloudy Conditions (179K)

1523-1526

Newsom, CIRA, Colorado State University: Remote Detection of Turbulence Produced by a Helicopter (1,857K)

Meteorological Modeling & Data Assimilation

1526-1529

Greenwald, CIRA, Colorado State University: Forward Radiative Transfer Modeling in 4D Data Assimilation of GOES Imager Data (162K)

1529-1532

Hertenstein, CIRA, Colorado State University: Modeling Support for Data Assimilation (7K)

1532-1535

Cionco, Army Research Laboratory: Surface Layer Airflow and Diffusion Simulations for Forested and Urbanized Areas

1535-1538

Cionco, Army Research Laboratory: Further Evaluation of a High Resolution Wind Model over a Complex Terrain Surface

Decision Aids

1538-1541

Aïdonidis, EPSHOM: The METOC Guide : An Interactive Digital Environmental Briefing Docket (572K)

1541-1544

Hume, The UK Meteorological Office: MONET (Met Office Noise Evaluation Tool) (292K)

1544-1547

Åqvist, Swedish Military Weather Service: Describing Weather Impact on Military Activities Using Numerical Forecasts (6K)

1547-1550

Eanes, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc.: DON'T SHOW ME ISOBARS: Integrating Tactical Weather Data into Mission Planning Systems (686K)

1550-1700

Poster session

1800-2100

EVENING SOCIAL (University Park Holiday Inn)

 

 

Wednesday, 26 April 2000

0730-0830

Registration and Poster Set Up

SESSION THREE: Meteorological Modeling & Data Assimilation
Session Chair: Teizi Henmi

Platform Presentations

0830-0850

Cook, Naval Research Laboratory: NOWCAST for the Next Generation Navy (93K)

0850-0910

Eloranta, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Using Volume Imaging Lidar Data to Test Large Eddy Simulations (214K)

0910-0930

Henmi, Army Research Laboratory: Evaluation of Operational Mesoscale Models MM5 and BFM Over White Sands Missile Range (315K)

0930-0950

Norquist, Air Force Research Laboratory: Performance Evaluation of the AFWA-AFRL, Diagnostic Cloud Forecast Algorithm (643K)

0950-1010

Schuster, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University: A Prototype Realtime Boundary Forecast Model Running on Clusters of PCs (K)

1010-1030

BREAK

1030-1050

Bowers, NCAR: Development of Operational Mesogamma-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction System for Army Test Ranges (328K)

1050-1110

Vukicevic, CIRA, Colorado State University: Adjoint Analysis of Stratocumulus Cloud Formations (118K)

1110-1130

Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, AMB: Assimilating Multiple Meteorological Sensor Data (43K)

1130-1300

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

SESSION FOUR: Atmospheric Propagation
Session Chair: Alan Wetmore

Platform Presentations

1300-1320

Anderson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center: Rough Evaporation Duct (RED) Experiment (572K)

1320-1340

Patterson, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center: Advanced Refractive Effects Prediction System (182K)

1340-1400

Paulus, Space and Navy Warfare Systems Center: Application of an Evaporation Duct Climatology in the Littoral (393K)

1400-1420

Wilson, Army Research Laboratory: A Reexamination of Acoustic Scattering in the Atmosphere Using Improved Models for the Turbulence Spectrum (1,989K)

Poster commercials
Session Chair: Alan Wetmore

Atmospheric Propagation

1420-1423

Forand, Defense Research Establishment Valcartier: Scintillation in the Littoral Battlespace (686K)

1423-1426

Radke, NCAR: Smoke Aerosol Modulation of Cloud Emissivity

Cloud Measurement and Parameters

1426-1429

Campbell, CIRA, Colorado State University: Lagrangian Views of Cloud Systems

1429-1432

Fleishauer, CIRA, Colorado State University: Complex Layered Cloud Experiment (CLEX-5): Preliminary Phenomenology of Four Case Studies (139K)

1432-1435

Forsythe, CIRA, Colorado State University: Cloud Base Height Estimates from a Combination of a Satellite Cloud Classification and Ceilometer-Based Surface Reports (330K)

1435-1438

Kankiewicz, CIRA, Colorado State University: Combining Satellite and Cloud Profiling Radar Cloud Climatologies Over the Oklahoma ARM CART Site (67K)

1438-1441

Larson, CIRA, Colorado State University: An Observational Study of the Microphysics of Altostratus Clouds (13K)

1441-1444

Reinke, CIRA, Colorado State University: Climatological and Historical Analysis of Cloud for Environmental Simulations Database for the 1997-1998 Data Year (CHANCES97) (733K)

1444-1447

Reinke, CIRA, Colorado State University: An Overview of the Layered Cloud Experiment (CLEX-5) Field Campaign During the Period Nov-Dec 1999 (317K)

1447-1450

Volz, Dept. of Atmos. Science, Colorado State University: Inference of Cloud Optical Properties with the 2FOV Radiometer (127K)

1450-1500

Announcements

1500-1530

BREAK

1530-1700

Poster Session

 

 

Thursday, 27 April 2000

0730-0800

Registration

SESSION FIVE: Cloud Measurement and Parameters
Session Chair: Richard Shirkey

Platform Presentations

0800-0820

Kovel, Army Research Laboratory: Modeling Obscuration with a Database (307K)

0820-0840

Wylie, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 10 Years of Cloud Statistics from HIRS (772K)

SESSION SIX: Cloud Modeling and Prediction
Session Chair: Ken Eis

Platform Presentations

0840-0900

DeVito, Royal Military College of Canada: Measuring and Modeling the Dispersion of Inert Aerosol Puffs in the Atmosphere (774K)

0920-0940

Dailey, Litton-TASC, Inc.: JSIMS Environmental Tailoring Services (JETS): SNE Tailoring for the M&S Community 257(K)

0940-1000

Geiszler, Naval Research Laboratory (Cloud Prediction): Evaluation of Ceiling and Visibility Prediction (349K)

1000-1030

BREAK

1030-1050

Campbell, CIRA, Colorado State University: Polar Orbiter Wind and Heights Estimation (375K)

1050-1110

Ligon, Army Research Laboratory: Spectral Signatures of Bioaerosol Clouds Using Waves (2,504K)

1110-1130

Ruggiero, Air Force Research Laboratory: A Comparison of Methods of Cloud-Top Height Estimations from Satellite and NWP Analysis Data (55K)

1130-1230

LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)

SESSION SEVEN: Decision Aids
Session Chair: Paul Tattelman

Platform Presentations

1230-1250

Adams, Colorado State University: Comparison of Military and Civilian Weather Information Decision Support Systems (9,122K)

1250-1310

Bensinger, Litton-TASC, Inc.: Driving Planning Processes for Precision Weapons with Embedded Weather Decision Aids (567K)

1310-1330

Farrell, Air Force Research Lab, AFRL/IFSA: Joint METOC Repository, The Program (478K)

1330-1350

Gouveia, Litton-TASC Inc.: TAWS AND NOWS: Software Products for Operational Weather Support (184K)

1350-1410

Hoock, Army Research Laboratory: Weather Data Visualization-Decision Aid Tools for Army C41 (1,416K)

1410-1430

Shirkey, Army Research Laboratory: Verification of the Target Acquisition Weather Software (TAWS) (94K)

1430-1450

Wilson, Army Research Laboratory: A Prototype Physics-Based Acoustic Battlefield Decision Aid Including Atmospheric Effects (4,031K)

1450-1510

Wade, Army Research Laboratory: Software Problem Reporting System for IMETS Software Development (217K)

1510

CONFERENCE WRAP UP


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